Re: A shameless plug for string variables

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 14 October 2004 11:46 am, Juergen Wieferink wrote:
> 
> I think the extra features patch can give parse errors.  Consider
> 
>   x = "5"
>   set label x, 7

If you are thinking that "5" will be treated as a number in this context,
that is not correct.  In the case of "set label foo", the parser must
explicitly check whether foo is a string variable or an integer variable.
Otherwise it is ambiguous whether you are setting a property of
label 5, or setting the current label to have text string "5".

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